Blurb:
∞ Female Lead Version ∞
This is a cultivation world where spiritual energy is running dry.
And me, Li Qu, am a Five-Element spiritual root with a balance of yin and yang, all five elements complete, a body blessed with purple qi, and the favor of Heaven... but because spiritual energy is running dry, I might not be able to become an immortal.
You can also call me: a pretty vase.
That day, I used the sect's grand formation as a game screen and created a cultivation version of Snake.
From then on, the wheels of fate began to turn...
From now on, you are not allowed to call me a pretty vase.
Because I am the creator, producer, and publisher of every cultivation-themed game in this world: Greedy Spirit Snake, Artifact-Forging Synthesis, Spirit-Pill Match, One-Stroke Talismans, Catch the Great Cranes, Five-Element Feast, Ginseng Defense, Five-Element Battleship, Cave-Dwelling Renovation, Arcane-Rope Cutting, Super Formation Master, Cultivation Canyon 5v5... and many more.
I am the sole shareholder, director, and company representative of the Cultivation World's Helping People Ascend Game Company.
Or you could call me... Boss Qu.
Heh, I won't call myself President Li. Bleh!
∞ Male Lead Version ∞
Rituals have collapsed, demons and monsters run rampant, spiritual energy is running dry, and the world is on the brink of destruction.
As the great edifice crumbles, my clan gives its lives for the Way, seeking a sliver of hope.
I, too, shall go. My divine consciousness may slumber forever.
Yet, I encountered a heavenly melody and awoke.
Heaven was naive and mistook my remnant body for me. This is my fault.
I am trapped between heaven and earth, and spiritual energy flows poorly. This is my fault.
I am beset on all sides, and my cultivation advances slowly. This is my fault.
Heaven's joy is naive, gifted beyond compare, full of brilliant ideas unlike anything seen before. I am fortunate to share this joy.
She is famous throughout the land, and I share in the glory. Yet my joy is only a hundred-year-old child, and I have begun to harbor feelings for her. I truly am a beast!
Though ashamed, I foolishly hope my joy will take pity on me. Ahem.
I, ahem, want to ask you all: If you're older than the one you love, how should you win her heart?
The main story is told in third person.
[Female lead who focuses on games for billions of years × protective male lead who works hard to boost her cultivation]
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Before You Read:
1. This is not a female-led power fantasy, nor is the female lead strong.
2. Slow burn, focused on the female lead's growth. The male lead is truly an accessory (literally; he officially appears after Foundation Establishment and stays after that). One-on-one romance, happy ending, both leads' first love.
3. The plot and romance are split sixty-forty. If the romance makes up less than forty percent by the end, there will be bonus chapters with everyday romance.
4. My take on cultivation: a wild imagination mixed with a somewhat traditional, leveling-up cultivation story, with a light ensemble cast.
5. Cultivation ranks: Qi Refining (✓), Foundation Establishment (in progress), Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Spirit Separation, Deity Transformation, Void Refinement, Body Integration, Great Ascension, Tribulation Transcendence.
6. Comments are open after every paragraph with no restrictions. Please leave comments ^3^
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Before serialization, updated 3,000 words daily; after serialization, 6,000 words daily. Updates outside the usual schedule are just corrections to typos, awkward sentences, or author’s notes skits.
Theme: Strive tirelessly and work together for mutual success.
